Ecamm Live: How To Use Overlays

Hi I'm Adrian Salisbury and welcome to another one of our videos in this Ecamm Live tutorial series. In this video we're going to have a look at overlays and how you can use them. Now if you caught the first video that I did you will remember that down on the side here you've got a window with your overlays in and you can open that and close it from the top here the top thumbnail in this list. So what are overlays? Well we're really layering up so we've got our base video of me sitting here and then we're going to drop things in front and they don't have to be transparent. There are times like on this one for instance that is just a screenshot of a somebody's comment and then I've highlighted it you know I can bring that in and I can totally fill the screen with it if I want to. I tend to use these a lot in presentations because it's a really strong way of showing a testimonial and yeah so I can bring that in like this and I can either hit the cross to get rid of it or it's in my list over here now which you can see the ones that are on and which ones are off by the the little eye and the eye with a line through it so if I hit it there then that's gone. Something else we can bring in as an overlay is a pdf and either I can you see I've already got one over here if I share this this is a document that I could walk through so I could sit myself off to the side and you can see on there that I can walk through the pages of that. A great way to sort of work through a presentation. Let's lose that one and got one down here that I've done as a webinar and it's set to fill the screen. Again I can just click my way through and I can work through that like I would a webinar presentation and if I want to add a thumbnail onto this I can click this picture in picture and hit the plus down here and that image comes in and again like in other places I can change this around to the the size and the shape of it. If I were using my green screen then I could come in and be an overlay but you can see how that could work you know similar to other webinar programs you can use this now and do this as a live into Facebook or YouTube or wherever else and you've got this same kind of effects and results. Now I can also bring in a logo so let me drag this in here so I've made this in snapper which is an online photo editor or you could use canva or photoshop but I can make this I can resize it and I can just drop it up here. You just need to be careful that you're not hitting on these buttons when you're trying to resize you can only move or doing that you can only move you can only move from the bottom right in terms of resizing you can't touch it anywhere else so pull it out resize it put it back in place if that's what you want to do but that can look really professional when you're doing a live broadcast and having your branding up there. Now again I can hit down here and take that off other people want to just do a what's a lower third as we call it along the bottom and I can just make one of those again in one of these bits of software and make it the size that I want just literally you can see there the shape of it I've just set that long banner and I've written my text over the top of it and I can drop that in. Now some people have been struggling with this apparently and so I just want to give you a tip really this is actually I've now made an image that is in the 16 width by 9 height format so 16 by 9 and by creating it this size it will snap to the screen and I can't go wrong with it so I don't get to place it anywhere I literally drag this on let go and it puts it straight along the bottom there and it fits to the corners so that's a kind of foolproof way to do this let me just show you another quick way that you don't even need to be bringing anything in I can click down here for a text overlay and I can actually write my name and I can choose a background and choose a background colour down here I can go off to the custom area and get any colour I want turn that off or on we're going to leave it on and I'm going to center it align it to the right and hit add and here it comes and what I can actually do is drag this out like this hit on the edit I don't know why it's done this a couple of times it doesn't seem to recognize me for right aligning but I can then pull that down and I mean it will go off the page so it's down to me to line it up but I've actually just made that here inside the editing software without leaving Ecamm now I like this actually and I think this can look really nice you know you could either set this almost to the width or you could bring it off to the side slightly and you know bring it in a bit make it look a bit more styled you can't drag in from this side again you can only adjust from the width from here and then the height of it from this bottom right corner but I can bring that in and I can drop it down here and I think that actually looks nicer than when that's going at the full width across but that's up to you so there you go that's you bringing in a logo bringing in images you saw me there I'm just literally dragging and dropping them on once they've come in once then they will form this list in here and the final thing that we can do and I've got one already made is a countdown timer and so I can go back into here and I simply just put the end time of it and I can create a timer again changing all the color around the font and everything else and I can save that and it can sit in here so I've done somewhere I've done a two minute tutorial and you know I can set it up in the corner here and people can see that it's counting down they know how long they're going to be on the live as long as I stick to it so yeah you can have a bit of fun with that maybe you tell me in the comments why you might use a countdown timer actually I'm not overly convinced but it's here and if it's here then it must have been requested so there you go I can just then turn all these off there's my countdown timer there's my name they've all gone yep so there you go that's how you can use overlays in Ecamm